napper
nounEtymology From nap + -er.
1
A person who takes a nap.
2
Slang The head.
- You look so dapper from your napper to your feet.1911, Charles Collins, Fred E. Terry, E.A. Sheppard, “Any Old Iron”:
- Under fire when this magazine is emptied you shout for “ammo” but perhaps No. 2, the ammo carrier, is lying in the rear with a bullet through his napper.1917, Arthur Guy Empey, “Lewis Gun”, in Over the Top, G. P. Putnam's, page 297:
1 more example
- As he walked back to his flat after meekly apologising, he wondered why a severe pain in his napper could affect the lead in his pencil.2011, Jeremy Roberts, Let's Not And Say We Did, page 96:
3
Obsolete A machine used to raise the nap on cloth.
4
Obsolete A sheepstealer.
- Derived terms
- catnapper, dognapper, gene-napper, rain napper